Reports available to Trumpeta has it that the serious manhunt against suspects of advance fee fraud operators or 419 otherwise known as “Yahoo Boys” has commenced in Imo State with Imo State police command arresting four for the alleged offence.

The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a 22 – year -old undergraduate of a university in the State, Nicholas Lambert, and three others, for allegedly defrauding a Dane, Jeanette Brunsma, of €15, 000, while impersonating a United States of America Army sergeant.

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Parading Lambert and his accomplices – Collins Njoku 22; Bright Chukwuezi, 23; and Chukwuemeka Ononiwu, 27 – the state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said 11 laptops and 20 phones of different brands were recovered from them .

Local Government Area; Bright Chukwuezi of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma and Chukwuemeka Ononiwu also of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma, were arrested on September 3, 2018.

“They were arrested by a combined team of operatives of Scorpion Squad and Monitoring Unit of the command for advanced fee fraud.”

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“The main suspect who claimed to be a US Army Sergeant by name Johnson Mills ( Nicholas Lambert ) serving in Kabul , Afghanistan , and his friends , who claimed to be Red Cross agents , were arrested in Imo State .

“We swooped on them at their hideout in Umuodu Mbieri, in the Mbaitoli LGA after the victim lodged a formal complaint to the police.

“The suspects have made useful statements to the police, confessing to have defrauded Jeanette Brunsma of Ringwey 10, Weiloo, Netherlands, of the sum of €15, 000.